Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Daniel Trombly

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy, directs the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization (CSTR) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Daniel Trombly, who writes at the blog Slouching Towards Columbia, is currently a research intern at CSTR.

The U.S. has quietly upgraded its involvement in the troubled East African country this year, aggressively using drones, local allies, local intelligence, and regional militaries to fight the Somali group al-Shabaab